Sunday, June 23, 2013
Red Velvet Birthday Cake
Back in March I got a phone call from my sister-in-law letting me know that her coworker needed a Red Velvet cake to celebrate a birthday. For this cake I started with a new Red Velvet cake recipe which smelled and looked great, but turns out this recipe needs to be put in three round layer pans even though it called for two. The first attempt at the cake it ended up bubbling over, so I tried again with three pans instead of two and it came out perfectly! To make sure I had the right amount of red, I used almost a full bottle of a no taste red dye. I then covered the cake and layers in between with some delicious cream cheese icing. After I iced the cake I sprinkled it with some red large sugar sprinkles and made a fondant rose for the middle. I did this because the woman ordering didn't specify any decorations, and I wanted to make it stand out a little bit. Let me know what you think :)
Ninjago Cake
I spent about a week trying to figure out the exact cake I was making for my nephew E because he kept changing the idea of what he wanted. I knew he wanted a Lego theme, but that turned into Ninjago-Lego-Crazy-Intense theme lol. Thankfully we found an idea online that he liked and I was able to work with. I made him a double layered round funfetti cake with some orange flavoring in it. I then dyed some buttercream to green so cover the cake so that it would look like the bottom board that you can put Legos on. Next I spent some time forming two Ninjago characters, and a few colored Lego blocks to put on top of the cake. Before placing all of the Legos, I cut out small circles to look like the top of the board and covered the cake in them. I then added the small Lego blocks, and positioned the Ninjago characters against the blocks. I finished the cake off by writing Happy Birthday to him and brought it right over for our family party. After playing a round of "Pin the Lego Head on the character," everyone dove into a piece of cake :) What do you think?
Minecraft Cupcakes
Back in March my uncle recommended my cake service to a coworker of his. She was really excited to celebrate her sons birthday with some cupcakes and asked me if I knew what Minecraft was, luckily I did. The fiance LOVES Minecraft and so does my brother so I am very familiar with this computer game. To catch everyone up, Minecraft is a computer game where you mine everywhere, find things to use to build a world, and beat up night creatures. Everything in the game is very pixelized so it was fun to find cool ways to make these cupcakes.
I chose to make 4 different toppers for the cupcakes; a creeper face, TNT, red stone, and dirt. To start I baked all of the cupcakes and let them cool. For these cakes I made some vanilla cakes. I whipped up a few batches of buttercream icing and put that in the fridge while I started to get the toppers ready. If I haven't mentioned it before, I always have to make multiple batches of icing for any of my cakes because my mom says you have to have LOTS of icing on the cakes, and she also happens to steal icing because she loves it so much. Same with my brother-in-law J :) Either way, I began rolling out red, tan,brown, white, dark and 2 light greens, and black fondant. Once each were rolled out I used the corner of a square cutter and made small squares in each color. To make the red stone I made a big square in white and put a few small red squares on it. Next I made the creeper faces and started with a green bottom square and added dark and light green squares and black squares to make them look like faces. I then made the dirt/grass blocks by starting with tan bottom squares, and adding green and brown squares to make them look like blocks. Lastly I made TNT starting with a red large square at the bottom. I took my fondant tool and made it look like brick. I added a strip of white in the middle and wrote "TNT" on them. I added a square topper to each cupcake and hit the road to mean S to drop them off :) She let me know that her son loved them and knew exactly what they were! Let me know what you think!
I chose to make 4 different toppers for the cupcakes; a creeper face, TNT, red stone, and dirt. To start I baked all of the cupcakes and let them cool. For these cakes I made some vanilla cakes. I whipped up a few batches of buttercream icing and put that in the fridge while I started to get the toppers ready. If I haven't mentioned it before, I always have to make multiple batches of icing for any of my cakes because my mom says you have to have LOTS of icing on the cakes, and she also happens to steal icing because she loves it so much. Same with my brother-in-law J :) Either way, I began rolling out red, tan,brown, white, dark and 2 light greens, and black fondant. Once each were rolled out I used the corner of a square cutter and made small squares in each color. To make the red stone I made a big square in white and put a few small red squares on it. Next I made the creeper faces and started with a green bottom square and added dark and light green squares and black squares to make them look like faces. I then made the dirt/grass blocks by starting with tan bottom squares, and adding green and brown squares to make them look like blocks. Lastly I made TNT starting with a red large square at the bottom. I took my fondant tool and made it look like brick. I added a strip of white in the middle and wrote "TNT" on them. I added a square topper to each cupcake and hit the road to mean S to drop them off :) She let me know that her son loved them and knew exactly what they were! Let me know what you think!
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